Fleeing the City [electronic resource] : Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism /
Thompson, M.editor.
This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization especially since the beginning of industrialism and the dawning of modern life. Most of the attention on modernity has been focused on urbanization and its consequences. But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as playing a crucial role in cultural identity, in the formation of the self within the context of modernity, as well as in the root of many forms of conservative politics and cultural movements.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is antiurbanism? A theoretical perspective / Michael J. Thompson -- Antiurbanism in the United States, England, and China / Robert A. Beauregard -- The origins of antiurbanism / James A. Clapp -- Pastoral ideals and city troubles / Leo Marx -- Boys in the city : homoerotic desire and the urban refuge in early twentieth-century Germany / Elena Mancini -- Antiurbanism, New York, and the early twentieth-century American national imagination / Angela M. Blake -- Imagining the urban poor : poverty and the fear of cities / Roger A. Salerno -- Americans, urbanism, and sprawl : an exploration of living preferences / Emily Talen -- Fundamentalism and antiurbanism : the frontier myth, the Christian nation, and the heartland / Eduardo Mendieta -- Against safety, against security : reinvigorating urban life / Don Mitchell.
This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization especially since the beginning of industrialism and the dawning of modern life. Most of the attention on modernity has been focused on urbanization and its consequences. But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as playing a crucial role in cultural identity, in the formation of the self within the context of modernity, as well as in the root of many forms of conservative politics and cultural movements.
Pollution.
Urban geography.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban planning.
City planning.
Pollution, general.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Urbanism.